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Book Reviews, Clinical Chemistry, Volume 47, Issue 1, 1 January 2001, Page 150, https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/47.1.150
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Environmental Chemistry, Seventh Edition1 Stanley E. Manahan. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 1999, 898 pp., $79.95. ISBN 1-56670-492-8.
This text is an update of the sixth edition published in 1994. The new version keeps the general format and illustrations of the earlier text but has added many new references and discussions of more current environmental issues throughout. It is written as an instructional text, complete with references as well as questions and problems at the end of each of the 27 chapters.
The first two chapters provide a conceptual overview, broadly defining environmental chemistry and describing the natural realms (water, air, and soil), their interactions with life (biosphere), and the impact of humans (anthrosphere) on all of these. The next 14 chapters detail the fundamentals of (a) water chemistry, with discussions of the important interactions of water with air and soil, the role of living organisms, sources of pollution, and humankind’s attempts to deal with the consequences of these; (b) atmospheric chemistry, with discussions on sources of pollution, global warming, acid rain, ozone layer destruction, and smog; and (c) the geosphere, with discussions on soil chemistry and related problems, both those that occur naturally and those related to human activities.
